The College News
Volumo IV. No. 1
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 3, 1917
Price 5 Cents
B. M. PATRIOTIC FARM
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL VENTURE
Girls Raise and Can Vegetables
Under the leadership of four alumnae,
A. Price '03, M. Nearing "09, B. EhlerB j
'09, and A. Hawkins '07, the 20-acre
Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm on the P. M.
Sliarpless estate at West Chester has
nourished* during the past summer.
Seventy*lne other young women, chiefly
Hi yn Mawr alumnae and undergraduates,
worked on the farm, planting and culti-
vating, harvesting and canning vegeta-
bles for college consumption or immedl-
;ite sate in the local market.
"It is the largest farm In the country
worked by women, has the greatest acre-
age, and the feweBt weeds", said Mr. A.
D. Cromwell, the professor of agriculture
at the West Chester State Normal
School, who supervised the Farm. Be-
sides the large quantities of potatoes,
corn, tomatoes, peas, cabbages, kohlrabi,
onions, chard, navy beans, lima beans,
string beans, beets, lettuce, celery, mel-
ons, Brussels sprouts, carrots, spinach,
turnips, salsify, and endives that were
raised, many bushels of peaches, bought
from neighboring farms, were canned.
Over 8000 cans filled by the workers in
the cannery they themselves had built
were sold to the college at the end of the
season.
Canning, however, was not the only
measure, for the "farmerettes" dried and
salted beans, and put up marmalade and
.soup as by-products of the peach and to-
mato canning. Even the "split heads"
of cabbage were used, a German lady in
the town buying from the farm to use in
the making of sauerkraut.
The leisure hours of the workers were
divided between "Tenements A and B",
as their sleeping quarters were termed;
"Tillie Superford", the farm auto truck;
the ice cream cone palace; and the
Sharpless swimming hole. It was by
�'Tillie'' that the girls were always recog-
niaed on their frequent trips through
West Chester, and as a result of "Til-
lie's" popularity the Farm turned out al-
most as many Ford mechanics as expert
canners.
Whether or not the farm was a finan-
cial success it is as yet Impossible to
say. Workers will go out to West Ches-
ter on Saturdays for some weeks to come,
and until the last vegetables are brought
in and disposed of the outcome from a
pecuniary viewpoint will be uncertain.
1919 heads the list of workers, having
contributed 21 members to the Farm;
1920 and 1917 come close behind with 17
and 15 respectively. The alumnae work-
ers were: A. Price '03, L. Windell '07,
A Hawl'ns '07. T. Nicholas "96, M. Con-
vene '97, M. Nearing '09. B. Ehlers '09,
M. Kirk '10. L. Watson '12. H. and M.
McElree '14, H. Taft '15, and E. Steltxer
�15.
LLYSYFRAN NEW FRESHMAN HALL
COLLEGE LEASES VAUX HOUSE
The unusual siie of the odd classes
this year has necessitated the teasing by
the college of the Vaux house on Oulph
Road opposite Denbigh for the winter.
Under the name of Llysyfran the new
hall will probably hold about 24 Fresh-
men and graduates.
There will be no dining-room in con-
nection with Llysyfran. but Its members
will take their meals In the other hall
dining-rooms. At the time of going to
print no warden had been appointed.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY AND STAFF
�Uyavfran" la toe Wslah for "crow's
neat".
Miss Edith Orlady, Secretary and
Registrar of the College, has returned
after a year's leave of absence.
Dr. Frank, Professor of Latin, has
returned after a year at the American
Academy in Rome.
Dr. Barnes in Physics, Dr. Brunei in
Chemistry, and Dr. Ferree in Experi-
mental Psychology, are full professors.
Dr. Matllde Castro has become full
Professor of Education in the Phoebe
Anna Thome Foundation and will be
active in organizing graduate and un-
dergraduate work In Education.
Ex-Dean Schenck is Associate Pro-
fessor in French.
Dr. Regina K. Crandall is Associate
Professor in English Composition.
Miss Dunn, Instructor in English,
will be acting director of the work In
English Composition.
The new instructors in Knglish are
Helen McGregor Noyes, A.B., and
Emily Noyes '15. The latter will live
with Dean Taft at Penygroes.
Dr. Ethel Sabin Is taking Dr. Avey's
place as Associate in Philosophy.
Mrs. Ada Hart Arlltt is Associate in
Educational Psychology.
Dr. Leake is full Professor of His-
tory and Economics at Allegheny < <>l
legt,
Mr. Frank J. Wright, B.S., M.A., is
Instructor in Geology. Dr. Brown has
resinned.
Clara K. Mortenson, M.S., Is a new
Instructor in Labor, Economics, and
Politics, and will live at Low Build
ings.
Mrs. Christine Elise de Sarauw is a
new Reader in German.
New demonstrators are: M. Jacobs
'15, Psychology; Anna S. Roberts,
Ph.D., Biology; Helen Lathrop, AH.,
Modern Art, In place of H. Parkhucst
'11; Jean Hammer and Carol Keay,
Gymnastics.
T. Smith '17 is secretary to the
President and E. Bryant '14 is secre-
tary to Dean Taft.
Dr. M. Leola Carrico is Resident
Physician of the College.
B. Ehlers '09 Is Warden of Denbigh,
and L. Windle '07 is taking her place
as Warden of Radnor.
[MOCK ORALS TO BE WRITTEN
New A.B. Requirements in 1921
As n consequence of dropping the oral
examinations in French and German for
Seniors the Junior and Sophomore exam-
inations In summer reading will be writ-
ten instead of oral. They will be con-
ducted by members of the Faculty. The
committees for these examinations are:
French, Dean Maddison, Miss Donnelly,
and Dr. Beck; German, Dr. Marion Parris
Smith, Dr. Jessen, and Dr. DeHaan. The
dates for these examinations are posted:
The four Senior examinations in
French and Get man will be held as usual
this year, except that they will be writ-
ten Instead of oral. The dates for the
first examinations are: French. October
13th; German, October 20th.
In the fall of 1921. changes In the A.B.
curriculum will go Into effect. On the
first Saturday of the college year, every
undergraduate student must take an
hour's written examination in the foreign
language, Greek, French, or German,
which she offered at entrance in accord-
ance with the new entrance require-
ments. This examination must be taken
every year of the college course until
graduation. Students entering with
Greek will be excused from the written
examination in Greek at the beginning
of the year following the year In which
they have elected and passed a minor or
major course in Greek. Students failing
to pass any one of these four written ex-
aminations will be required to go into tu-
toring classes.
On the second Saturday of her Junior
year, each student must take an examina-
tion in a language which she did not
offer at entrance, Greek. French. Ger-
man, or Spanish. Students entering with
Greek are required to take French or
German. This examination will be ele-
mentary In character, about equivalent to
five periods a week for one year in pre-
paratory schools, or to elementary
French. Greek, or German in college.
Juniors who fail to pass this examination
will be required to go into tutoring
claaaea and pay for them at the present
rates They will not have another oppor-
| tunity to be examined until the second
Saturday of their Senior year. Students
failing to pass this examination must
wait over for their degree and try again
at the beginning of the next college year,
1 this rule admitting of no exception.
Great-Grandniece of Dr. Rhoads
^ Matriculation Scholar
Five of the entering graduate students
coine from France. They are A. Chalu-
four, M. Fabin, J. Pade, M. Pouresy, M.
, Schoell. Eight members of the Class of
i 1917 have returned as graduate students,
It. Greenough, M. Halle. I. Haupt, S. Jel-
liffe. A. MacMaster, M. Milne, R. Sato,
M. Wlllard.
The great-grandniece of Dr. Joseph
Taylor, founder of Bryn Mawr, Ann
> Richards Taylor, and the granddaughter
I of Dr. James Rhoads, first President of
the College, Margaret Rhoads I.*dd, are
members of the Class of 1921. Miss
i I.:id<l. whose mother was Anna Rhoads
i Ladd '89, is matriculation scholar for
Pennsylvania and the. South with an av-
erage of 85.65. She was prepared by the
: Baldwin School.
Jean Atherton Flexner, the daughter of
Abraham Flexner, a leader in practical
1 education at Columbia, won the matricu-
, lation scholarship 'for New York, New
1 Jersey, and Delaware. She entered on
Greek and was prepared by the Brearley
School; her average was 86.35. She is
i the niece of Dr. Simon Flexner of the
Rockefeller Institute.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, and
Walter Cope, the college architect, have
daughters In the Class of 1921.
Dorothy Wyckpff, of Norwich Free
Academy, and Eugenia Sheppard of the
Columbus School for Girls, are the ma-
triculation scholars for New England and
the West with averages of 86.35 and
70.25.
One class baby. Helen Hutchins Welst.
daughter of Alice Cllley Welst '97; E.
West, daughter of A. West ex-'95, and
N. Porter, daughter of Ruth Furaeaa
West 'M, are cottage granddaughters en-
tering this year. Nine Freshmen are sis-
ters of Alumna? or undergraduates.
TO DANCE OR NOT TO DANCE?
UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION TO DECIDE
"Shall there be May Day this year"?
is one of the first questions to.be decided
this semester by the Undergraduate As-
sociation. With this question is involved
the distribution of the proceeds. War
relief, several have suggested, with the
idea that this would draw a larger audi-
ence and create more enthusiasm among
the students.
War work, aside from the Red Cross
which is now under the Jurisdiction of
the Christian Association, and arrange-
ments for war courses similar to those
given here last spring must be brought
up at one of the first meetings of the
year, according to V. Kneeiand '18, presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Association.
May Day, if it is given, she added,
must be considered a factor in the plan-
ning of war work of courses for the year.
as It takes up most of the spare time of
the students during the second semester.
The list complete on going to press is:
Rockefeller�Graduates: M. Flat her.
M. Halle, I. Haupt. O. Marx, M. Milne, R.
Sato, E. Stark 1921: C. Barton, E. Bos-
well, M. (rile, F. Hollingshead, L. Ireson,
F. Jones, R. Earns, E. Matteson, E.
Mills, M. Noble, E. O'Connor, V. Selig-
man, D. Walter, L. Ward, A. Whlttler, T.
Williams.
Pembroke West�Graduates: A. Chalu-
four, G. Hawk, A. MacMaster, M. O'Sulll-
van, D. Sewell. 1921: C. Bolton, L. Cadot,
H. James. D. Klenke. M. Ladd, F. Moffat.
R. Murphy, M. Smith, M. E. Smith, J.
Spurney, E. Taylor, M. W. Taylor, M.
Thompson, H. Welst, D. Wyckoff.
Pembroke East�Graduates: C. Butler,
G. Drlnkwater, B. Greenough, S. Jelllffe,
J. Pade, I. Smith, M. Wlllard. 1921: C.
Dimeling, E. Evans, J. Flexner, M. Foot,
F. Howard. E. Jay. I. Lauer, D. McBride,
M. Morton. N. Porter, H. Stone, M. Wal-
ton. S. Washburn, E. West, W. Worces-
ter.
Denbigh�Graduates: H. Adair, G.
inter, M. Bausch. M. Chambers, N.
Drake, W. Goodall, A. Hart, E. Lorenz,
H. Patch, L. Powell, H. Ross, M. Schoell.
1921: L. Beckwith, M. Churchill, C. Don-
nelly, M. Fette, ('. Garrison. E. Harris,
M. E. Howard, F. Knlffen, E. Lattimer,
D. Lubln, H. Murray, E. Sheppard, B.
Stokes, A. R. Taylor.
Merlon 1921: M. Archbald, M. Bald-
win, M. Banks, C. Brickley, J. Brown, K.
Cowen, O. Davle, E. Farnsworth, E.
Kales, E. Kellogg, M. Kirk land, E. Llew-
ellyn, G. Lubln, C, Mottu, F. Rlker. B.
Warburg, K. Ward. M. Wlesman.
Radnor -Graduates: M. Fabin, L. Fe-
eler. L. Gabel, N. Mohler. 1921: H. Ben-
nett, F, Bellstein. E. Bliss, E. Cecil, E.
Collins. E. Cope, H. Farrell. B. Ferguson.
R. Florence, F. Ford. E. Godwin. M. Gog-
gin, R. Harlan. H. Hill, K. Johnston, R.
Marshall, M. McClennan, E. Newell, J.
Peyton. M. Platt. L. Relnhardt, G. Trot-
ter. E. von Maur.
CLA88 ELECTION IN TAYLOR
Having lured Miss Dlmon to a remote
part of Taylor, and having escaped un-
ostentatiously from the mob of parents
and "membership" people, shortly after
noon yesterday, a number of Juniors and
Freshmen congregated In the oAce of
the Recording Secretary and elected
Marynla Foot Freshmsn Chairman
Miaa Foot's home Is Red Wing. Minne-
sota, and she was prepared for college
by Mias Wheeler* School In Providence
She rooms at 31 Pembroke Cast